treehugger.com - 12/13/2008
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solar powered traffic lights istanbul photo Photos from Today's Zaman (left) and BELBİM (right). The obvious inconveniences aside, there's something to be said for living in a place where both random and rolling power outages occur with some frequency. It seems to foster neighborliness and ...
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Traffic lights backed up by solar power - why don’t we all have these already?
CrunchGear —
... storm in Seattle, the city grinds to a halt, not because people don’t know how to drive in the rain, but because they can’t seem to deal with outed traffic lights. Simply treating every intersection as a stop sign is wearying; why don’t we have solar-powered backups for nighttime and emergency use? Retrofitting would be easy and cheap, and it’s guaranteed to make disasters and blackouts a little bit easier on everybody when the time comes.
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Solar-Powered Traffic Lights
Technology - Channel Feed —
... The solution: why not rely on solar power? Batteries can always store energy for the night or cloudy days, and utility electricity can become a last-resort back-up. The problem is that the initiative seems to be taken by so-called second- or third-world countries like Turkey, South Africa, and India. (Image and source: treehugger.com) ...
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